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Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker, Teacher. I surf. Taipei/NYC\Philly/LA/Toronto Lived in Taiwan as a kid! Celebrate yourSELVES 我愛台灣 🇹🇼

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@bobblack1
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10 years tomorrow You have helped add “sane” to my insane life Without whom, the books wouldn’t have been written the countries stretched between our fingers gone unexplored 🙏🍷🧎
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@DepartureJay endless....can not pick a favorite, so this moment, just this: "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
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I love this novel...and i love @CoronaSamizdat appalling that NOT ONE major literary magazines/newspaper review this Complete Arlt shameful all the social media surrounding books-of-the-moment, yet this extraordinary grown breaking novel re-published in full goes unnoticed
@HarschRick424
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Roberto Arlt's complete masterpiece, The Seven Madmen, The Flamethrowers, for the first time in English
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@asherperlman 🙏🍷💚
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After mourning the death of a dear friend a poet, & organizing her memorial, i realized i was too emotional in how I reacted here. So for now simple: Support our profession: fellow writers & indie publishers 🍷✍️ 🙏 My weekend Herschel 07769 is a buddy read with @21stCscribe
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@bobblack1
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@rob_rubsam Berger, ways of seeing, about looking, another way of telling, ...Barthes, camera lucida, geoff dyer, the ongoing moment, terry barnett, criticizing photographs, Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs
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@_ryanruby_ AFD are deranged....and yet, their rise to power and the image of them holding a flag is the natural conclusion of their hate...if this doesnt show how deranged Germany often is...or how appalling the behavior of the Israeli Far-Right (and the idf/Bibi coalition ), dont know what
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taking my wife to airport m, she’s off for her 3 mnth business trip, aka, Bob’s uninterrupted writing qtr & submission pd in the meantime, reading this tonight & tmrw. Looking forward. The first chapter is a brilliant & fun 9- pg sentence @IneluctableQuak @Dalkey_Archive
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“C’etait un Rendez-vous @GAmdahl52775 This book, high octane brilliance 🔥🔥 Read with interludes to catch my breath, Gary mad prose scorches🚗 @GAmdahl52775 brilliant scream leaves does current American novels gasping . 🏁 Published by @CoronaSamizdat , read it.
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@bobblack1
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@_ryanruby_ great review. maybe the best, smartest and most thoughtful i've read i love her essays, love her political stances & thinking, respect her as a debater, chess player & marxist her novels bore me and i find them 'Irish Lit' light...then again, she is ONLY 33...decades to grow
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@bobblack1
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@translationista @GrantaBooks EXACTLY btw, Han Kang ALWAYS considers her translated books as 'our book', as she told @TheBookerPrizes when she and @videshi_beti won the Booker 😍😍
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Today, reading this extraordinary collection. Published in 2016, LOOK has grown even more in stature and significance. Necessary reading. READ this poet. Solmaz Sharif, LOOK 🙏🧎‍♂️ @GraywolfPress #solmazshrif
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@bobblack1
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Hurray!!! My favorite book of poetry this year. I am thrilled. Have read With My Back to the World three times this year. I even told @VChangPoet I thought her collection would win. lol Han Kang and Victoria Chang in one day. So happy today 🎉🎉🎉🍷🙏🙏💛💛
@ForwardPrizes
Forward Prizes
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Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2024 is Victoria Chang ( @VChangPoet ) for 'with my back to the world' ( @CorsairBooks ) Congratulations Victoria!
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@_ryanruby_ indeed it is in the nature of power to manipulate language no matter its illegibility in order to legitimize itself no better example than israel at the moment and our american leaders to support their and other hegemony
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@bobblack1
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Today, Toronto feels like London, a city who sits deeply in one of the chambers of my heart. So too, Hong Kong I’m reading the brilliant Hong Konger/Glaswegian poet @timtimtmi new collection The Tatoo Collector published by @NineArchesPress I’ve awaited for a year Read! 💚
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@yalereview beautiful essay.....i wonder if @yalereview or Christina is familar with my friend Zun Lee and his extraordinary series on Black Life in America, called Fade Resistance...a remarkable series he has been working on for a decade
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@jerichobrown for anyone NOT familiar with the insanity of Williams' case and potential execution, please consider this "DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams is innocent and the prosecuting attorney seeks to vacate his wrongful conviction, yet Missouri has scheduled his execution, Sept. 24
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God damn 🔥 20 pages in this fine Poet IS the Love Child of Baldwin & Toomer This book does NOT NEED US! BUT, WE NEED THIS BOOK, …for a long long time. As a poet, Expat American, reader, I NEED this book. @Danez_Smif , making us right! Minnesota, God damn! 🔥🧎‍♂️🙏🙏❤️
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I did not know this writer/memoirist. Though I love his ex partner Sophie Calle work. I saw this book on a feed this week, intriguing. Curling up to read & looking forward. I love finding new books/writers who are not on my radar. Lifeblood @McNallyEditions 🙏🍷
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@alexander_61609 Kim Go Eun stole my heart long ago......and she is sooo good in this film (saw it at TIFF)
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84 pages, 10 chapters buddy read with my friend the fabulous novelist @21stCscribe Extraordinary, already stands shoulder to shoulder with Pynchon, Gaddis, Foster Wallace, Gass, Enard, Cortazar. @nytimesbooks list overlooked!! 🤐 @leafbyleafvlog @DeepVellum @HarschRick424
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From @BitterSouth IG One of my heroes, Langston Hughes 🙏🙏🧎‍♂️🍷 @jerichobrown @Danez_Smif and was part of today’s class discussion 🙏
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I’ve been buying and reading @CoronaSamizdat books for two years & if you haven’t been listening to me, well listen to Art @winslowlit of @thenation the ONLY publisher to publish the Complete Roberto Arlt in English an extraordinary roster of depth @HarschRick424 genius
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The emeritus literary editor at @thenation folks.
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@_ryanruby_ EXACTLY.....hahhahaha... and remember so many of the greats never.....but this guy got one hahahahahah
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4 months
One of the best indie publishers in the USA. You should consider submitting 🙏🙏🎉🍷
@sarabandebooks
Sarabande Books
4 months
☀️THE JULY OPEN IS HERE!☀️ Send us your work! 😎
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Sunday reading I meant Monday …I’ve lost count of the days. 💙🚣‍♂️
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@bobblack1
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the US and the Supreme Court are a murderous regime same horrid Justices who voted to ban the enshrined woman's right to reproductive free REFUSES to ban the death penalty and has denied the stay of the execution of an INNOCENT (dna vindicated) MAN Marcellus Williams horror
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BREAKING: The @USSupremeCourt has denied a stay of execution and declined to grant review to Marcellus Williams, allowing his execution to go forward at 6 p.m. CT today.
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Leave early in am, trip to Montreal. Getting out of Toronto so I can edit a manuscript, revising/editing for 7 months. The only time I’ve ever taken 1 poetry book on trip Reading for 2 long train rides @21stCscribe @GAmdahl52775 @CBeditions #Adalimonpoetry #deborahlevy
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@LuccaLazaro First chapters, of the best in American literature I knew DFW, even though this book was finalized by his editor, still extraordinary. His death still hurts. Profoundly better, even in its imperfect mess is better than Ferrante
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Let’s help @TiltedAxisPress , one of my fave Indie UK publishers. 🙏🍷🧎‍♂️ These published one of my fave Vietnam writers Thuan and one of my fave young Chinese writers Yang Ge and many great Afro-Asian writers. 🙏🙏🧎‍♂️🧎‍♂️✍️✍️
@TiltedAxisPress
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We are reaching out to our community for help – so that we can continue doing what we do best: publishing trailblazing literature in translation from languages across the globe. Please consider donating and / or sharing our Crowdfunder 🔗
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My kind of hound. ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥
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young man, orpheus in the poetry section
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Taking a break from Krasznahorkai alchemical prose, I return toward the poet who first taught me a fine way to spend a life. 40 years after first falling in love, I reread Arguably, the most beautiful and astonishing English debuts I know The one and only @FaberBooks
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Congratulations to @KatyEvansBush and to her magnificent publisher @CBeditions Excited to read the whole collection 🙏🍷🎉
@ForwardPrizes
Forward Prizes
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Congratulations to @KatyEvansBush ! Whose poem ‘From lines by Kenneth Patchen #3 ', from Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle published by @CBeditions , is Highly Commended in The Forward Prizes for Poetry. Read it in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025.
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@Coffee_House_ You have authors which SHOULD be on top 10 or 20, like @ValeriaLuiselli Lost Children Archive
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@IneluctableQuak But mfa writers seem more focused on promotion of voice, careers, awards w/an often anemically thin reading experience Breath of reading/exposure seems rare Maybe it’s N America, not sure I focus on my writing & try to read as widely (around world & multilingual) possible
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In light of my angry abt distribution/book prices in Canada, I want to mention great small/Indie presses I love/respect: many @CBeditions @CoronaSamizdat @Coffee_House_ @sarabandebooks @coachhousebooks @GalleonPress @bookhugpress @nightboatbooks @PalimpsestPress @Talonbooks etc
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@TrinaKrystal @TTCnotices EXACTLY....it is madness...and @TTCnotices @TTCNewsroom media does NOT care about the concerns or the safety of the passengers...it is getting ridiculous...just today, i sent @TTChelps a photo my 16 yr old brazilian student sent of food, mess and dog feces on the subway, absurd
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One of my favorite and most brilliantly made micro publishers Run by one of America’s greatest novelists And if you didn’t know, NOW you know 🙏🍷
@CoronaSamizdat
Corona\Samizdat
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At c\s we strive to include a free book with every order (subject to shipping weights [class limits/costs] ofc)...Just ask Rick
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@JohannesGoranss agree as i've written many times over the last two days, including today under @DonMeeChoi , herself both a wonderful poet and translator, for me it is INCUMBENT on those of us who write to demand that the translator is our partner, another writer & gets EQUAL billing i do
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Most gorgeous reader I’ve ever seen. 🖤🖤🖤🙏🙏 @GAmdahl52775 @HarschRick424 @CoronaSamizdat
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Joy thinks she's so intellectual... (Pictured here with @harsch_rick 's debut novel, The Driftless Zone)
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🎉🎉🍷🍷🙏🙏 @jerichobrown
@sewaneereview
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The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Jericho Brown ( @jerichobrown ) is the recipient of the 2024 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Read the full announcement here:
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@alexander_61609 @Stanford wow...the senior profs (those tenured) enabled this? & voted the Stegners done for?...heartbreaking, disorienting and frankly, feels to me symptomatic of the indentured servitude that many (not all) tenured faculty cultivate & wield over younger instructors, especially in writing
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@jerichobrown Best video ever 😂😂🙏
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@JeffShotts1 @GraywolfPress a towering work.....one of the Century's landmarks in American Literature
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@BlackBrainFood @_ryanruby_ Brilliant novel. I loved it. Her short novel for @NewDirections English Understand Wool also genius.
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@egabbert Marginalia? It’s gorgeous. Lovevto steel for a poem
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@danpjsheehan A great take. Agree in full. 🍷
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Productive weekend: 2 poems finished ; 2 submissions; 3 books: @IneluctableQuak @VChangPoet (re read With Our Back to World) & Mother by M.S. Redcherries 4 pints with a horror novelist abt to re-watch for first time in 30 yrs. love Alec Guinness @21stCscribe : seen it? 🕵️‍♂️
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@alexander_61609 “He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze" autobiography of red was the first carson i read, 25 years ago or so...i was so. shocked by its power, beauty and innovation, i re-read it again back to back....stunning
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Today, one of my poems, A Cord in the Wall, left behind, was published by @ocean_pounds Still tinkering, as I guess we always to, until the end. Thank you so much @leekasing .ca Dedicated to my friend, the British writer @21stCscribe 🙏🧎‍♂️
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Today @ocean_pounds published my poem The voice of two pipes songing in their Monday Art post magazine I rarely write short poems but this is part of a series of micro poems inspired by a walk I had with writer @21stCscribe through High Gate Cemetery last November 🙏🧎‍♂️
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@LeeSpencerlee36 @usantidoping CONGRATULATIONS OLYMPIAN. great job on Turkey. 🙏🎉🎉🥇🥇👏👏🔥🔥🔥
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@nabbski all excellent...but the book of disquiet will change your life....one of 5 books i permanently keep on my night table
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@Dalai_Mama_ Orphée The Colour of Pomegranates Bright Star Neruda A Quiet Passion Benediction all wonderful ..students will love
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What does a writer look like after spending 2 whole days of a beautifully sunny 3-day weekend inside, completely revising a 112 pg poetry manuscript which had been earlier submitted to a publisher ? Time travel, please 🙏 😅🥃
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HAN KANG!!!! oh, soooo happy. a brilliant novelist a thoughtful, kind person. my students from Korea are going to be thrilled. Super happy for her! 😍😍😍
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@DannyDrinksWine Cassavetes is, for me, the greatest Ameican filmmaker of post wwii...and arguably, the greatest American film about family, alcoholism and broken hearts is below:
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@jerichobrown ❤️❤️💪🎉🎉🍷🍷
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Now for something celebratory @larapawson Spent Light my favorite book of English prose this year nominated for The Goldsmiths Prize as best book of the year Have read it twice & t nothing like it. A poets book really ethnography of life Read! Published by @CBeditions
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One of my favorite writers carefully read by one of my favorite reviewers The one and only @chrisvia 🙏🍷🍷🎉 Can’t wait to watch later today
@leafbyleafvlog
Leaf by Leaf
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Follow Krasznahorkai’s obsession with Herman Melville from its genesis (Manhattan Project) to its artistic apocalypse (Spadework for a Palace)! @NDPublishing @SylphEditions #book #BookRecommendations #bookreviews #BookTwitter #bookx #Literature
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@_ryanruby_ when i was in university, he was the apogee of an editor...and @Harpers as important, sometimes more, than the @NewYorker ...a towering treasure to american letters...
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@pourfairelevide had a HUGE argument 2 months ago about this with my academic manager & some fellow teachers, they even did a workshop/pd on using chatGPT to lesson plan!! told them: "you are betraying our integrity as teachers, our profession & contributing to plagiarism, academic duplicity
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Ok. 4 hrs of morning writing and now starting @larapawson previous book before Champions league That will make 4 read @CBeditions books read in the last month. Finished two of Charles Boyce’s last week. This is a BRILLIANT publishing house. 🙏💙 First 10 pts fabulous. 🙏🎉🎉🍷
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@ALAuchter May I recommend the new poetry books published this year by @CBeditions poets Brilliant and undercovered and under reviewed P.s. they do not publish me so I’m saying that as a poet who admires the work 🙏🧎‍♂️🍷
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@Danez_Smif Omg same. I lived in Taiwan as kid. When I moved to USA, I thought cicada buzz was the power lines lol didn’t learn until I was in 20s though i worshipped the shells on trees. Kids, poets we got on the planet. 🙏🙏
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@MarieMyungOkLee @videshi_beti love all 4 (available in english), each one extraordinary and different from the others hoping this will lead to complete Han Kang ouevre being translated it is hard to say which hits hardest for me, but as a poet im drawn strongest by The White Book Human Acts also great
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@neglectedbooks @HarschRick424 Rick Harsch, Harry Crews, William Gaddis & David Markson.
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@erin_heremeroar ManifoldDestiny of Eddie Vargas is extraordinary. One of the great American novels Is range insane. Discovered @HarschRick424 from @chrisvia
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congratulations @VChangPoet on inclusion and congratulations on your nominee for the @ForwardPrizes Collection of the year your work has been both a blessing & a liniment in my life, as a writer and reader, over the last 2 years. timeless language, when silence was word 🌻
@ForwardPrizes
Forward Prizes
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Read Victoria Chang's poem 'Untitled, 1960' in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025. @VChangPoet ’s With My Back to the World (published by @CorsairBooks ) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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If you do not know @larapawson extraordinary book or her brilliant publisher @CBeditions (a brilliant writer himself) Buy this book My favorite and most inspiring prose book of the year. SERIOUSLY, trust me. 🙏🍷💛💛
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@CBeditions @larapawson @KirkdaleBooks “May contain squirrels” 😂 genius. Cats & toasters too. 😂 This IS still, 9 months in, my favorite prose book of the year!! should be nominated for awards!! Please submit for Booker & Republic of Consciousness Awards @chrisvia @leafbyleafvlog @HollyYoung01 please review
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@ymmayer she is awesome.....i havent heard any sound either....maybe the internet is freaking her out.. she is awesome
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Here is the memorial photograph for my brilliant and loving friend of 21 years, the Hong Kong/Toronto poet, writer, artist and most loving friend I’ve known, the incomparable Holly Lee 🙏💛 Read and seek out her work I apologize for my overly emotional tweets last week 🙏🌻🧎‍♂️
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@maxdaniellawton A brilliant book. The 2nd Marias I read, after Heart So White. ….his trilogy is apogee of contemporary Spanish Lit. Crushed when he died
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@IneluctableQuak yes.....though i prefer (slightly) Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz is extraordinary book and reading experience
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@brianhioe yes...it was covered on @NewsHour , briefly...but they do cover and follow what happens in Taiwan...i think the world, western world, is (rightly) focused on Israel's genocidal behavior in Gaza....but everything is connected and people need to follow more clos what is happens
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great video by my friend, brilliant London-based novelist/short story writer, @21stCscribe always thoughtful & insightful, we dont always agree but i love his analysis as unlike most of booktubers, he considers books from a rich perspective @VChangPoet Lovely review of WMBTTW
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#Booktube My Friday Reads for seven novels, one poetry collection and a work of non-fiction. Pretty mixed bag ratings-wise.
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@GAmdahl52775 great book, i also LOVE those old, editions another reasons i LOVE publishers who actually make great books w/great writers for a great price a) @CoronaSamizdat (as you know) b) @CBeditions --run by a great writer with great books in UK c) @sarabandebooks d) @Coffee_House_
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@natalie_eilbert @sammyzorba after nature his, by far, weakest book..., and an early (his first) non-academic...he wasnt a poet but a novelist and thinker, so definitely read: The Emigrants (brilliant) The Rings of Saturn (masterpiece) and Austerlitz (masterpiece) all extraordinary...Vertigo is decent
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we MUST stop this execution of an innocent man.... MARCEULLUS WILLIAMS IS INNOCENT AND YET THE state of Missouri wants to still execute. please read and write PLEASE WRITE THE GOVERNOR HERE
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Jericho Brown
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Horrific
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@TriciaLockwood a remarkable, extravagantly beautiful take on Butler's memoir....i was reluctant to read it though I have read a lot of Molly's poems (that's what we non contesting poets do), ..will now swallow it. your essays (no surprise) in LRB are inextinshable "lumiere"-esque. grateful, bb
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This brilliant essay & understanding of a book that deserves more readers. @_ryanruby_ analysis and excavation of Young’s extraordinary novel makes an old cat like me excited. Brilliance @chrisvia Please read. @fisheri @GAmdahl52775 🍷🙏 @NewYorker
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@thebooksdesk One of 20th century writers. Love his stories His death photo is devastating. Maybe the most profoundly sad image of a writer (and as metaphor as accurate for a writer as I know)
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@bobblack1
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Let’s help out. I’ve made a donation too One of my favourite small Indie presses needs our help. They deserve our help. While you are at it, buy a book from one of their authors. 🙏🧎‍♂️💔🤍
@sarabandebooks
Sarabande Books
1 month
1/ Your Sarabande team is okay, but we’re so sad to share that we had a break-in at our offices over the weekend. We want to send our thanks to the *many* neighbors and friends who have reached out to lend a hand and ask how to help. We’re overwhelmed by your kindness.
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@bobblack1
bob black
4 months
As beautiful as modern elegy as I’ve read. That bruising beautiful ache filled final line. 🙏🧎‍♂️❤️
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Alina Stefanescu
4 months
20 gauge steel, but surprisingly light. It’s called the Atlas XL. - Alan Felsenthal, “Ordering a Casket from Amazon Prime” 🖤
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@bobblack1
bob black
10 days
@harikunzru excellent choice...i've read 4 of her books....fabulous!
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@bobblack1
bob black
1 month
@chadwpost well....i knew dave...and so to that twat in the bar, just a quick bit of dfw wisdom: "Would that we scrutinize our technologies the way we scrutinize people." in a letter to a friend, THAT is friendship .i'd give anything to waste more of my time to listen & read more dave
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@bobblack1
bob black
5 months
@LeeSpencerlee36 🎉🎉🎉🥇🥇👏👏💛💛 great matches. The Zhou match was a real barn burner. A great test. Can’t wait until you wear good in Paris with your parents and grandmother in the audience 🙏🥇
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@bobblack1
bob black
1 month
One of my favorite poets. If you don’t know her work, please read her Her latest is one of the best collections of the year.
@ForwardPrizes
Forward Prizes
1 month
"I admire all poets. Every poet who is writing is facing so much. It takes courage and conviction to be a poet, to write poetry. At every turn, poets face reasons to stop writing poetry.” @VChangPoet @CorsairBooks Read our interview with Victoria Chang:
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@bobblack1
bob black
23 days
Today, I planted two golden mums for my dear friends Lee Ka-sing &Holly Lee Holly, a poet and artist, died 10 days ago. A friend for 20 years. Tomorrow I will read for them. Holly loved yellow and I promised Iris (daughter) & Lee Ka-sing that I would fix their garden 🙏💛
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@bobblack1
bob black
2 months
Day two with Solmaz Sarif. Her second book even more extraordinary, brave, —afire . As angry as Euripides. As furious as Medea. Spare light complex’d: Celan As good as contemporary Poetry gets. after Look has settled, read! Customs, Solmaz Sharif. @GraywolfPress
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@bobblack1
bob black
9 months
In that moment when grandmother placed a letter on the sewing table, adrift white wove, weathered and veined a palimpsest ring of tea stain and coin rust her words tucked into her inheritance a child under linen sifting through chicory, home.
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@bobblack1
bob black
3 months
@bernardtjoy Yes. Both. And, The Branch Will Not Break,” James Wright; Affrilachia, Clay’s Quilt,” “A Parchment of Leaves”and “The Coal Tattoo,” by Silas House, Cold Mountain and any story of novel by William Gay. NOT NOT Hillbilly Elegy !!
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bob black
4 months
Read 3 poetry books , 3 plays & a screen play. Now: Doss down w/one of my favorite books, period. Herr inspired me to knife getting an MFA when I was 21, and travel instead & write journalism for 10 yrs Read this book! 🥃 @21stCscribe @CoronaSamizdat @MollyYoung @fisheri
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@bobblack1
bob black
14 days
@poetification @_ryanruby_ lol I never understood how that author has gained so much respect. I read 100 pages of his famous book, before donating
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@bobblack1
bob black
3 months
This extraordinary book-length poem Begun last night. One of my writing lighthouses #cdwright was one of my writing heroes This remarkable book sets forth a map for poetry/prose toward fiction/history Extraordinary. Read it. ❤️❤️🙏 @BloodaxeBooks
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@bobblack1
bob black
4 months
2 of my favourite contemporary British writers, both walkers, both reimagine literary forms, both from London, finally meet on X. ❤️❤️ I love their books Read both @larapawson and @21stCscribe 🙏🍷 @CBeditions & @CoronaSamizdat
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MarcNash
4 months
My pleasure Lara. Your book was such an unexpected treat going into it with no preconceptions and coming out with concussion in the best way, literary concussion
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@bobblack1
bob black
6 months
@21stCscribe @CoronaSamizdat ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏 I live this damn book. It is ironic, because while I was reading it I was always in my head imagining The Troubles. The language. And last night I started watching Ince Upon a Time in Northern Ireland 🙏
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@bobblack1
bob black
25 days
in 2003, i left the country of my birth one of the reasons: I could abide living in a nation that abides with Nation-sanctioned murder tonight the nation, and the state of Missouri, executed a man who exculpatory DNA evidence should have cleared never again to live in the USA
@innocence
Innocence Project
25 days
Tonight, Missouri executed an innocent man. Our hearts are with Marcellus and his loved ones.
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